What's new with GitOps and OpenShift 1 Jonas Janz AppDev Solutions Architect https://github.com/pixeljonas 2 GitOps is when the infrastructure and/or application state is fully represented by

ArgoCD 3.1. Getting visibility into deployments 3.2. Deployment value comes from features and not Git hashes 3.3. The new Codefresh GitOps dashboard 3.4. Argo CD Integration 3.5. CI/CD pipelines with biggest challenges when adopting GitOps workflows. Next, we will look at ideal scenarios, the features that tools should provide, and the standards we aim to implement in what we defined as our vision obvious. You merge (or create a commit) in Git, and your cluster for environment X is now getting the new version. But how do you promote this release to environment Y? Every time somebody declares

thus exposing a new way of packaging and isolating application services. This led to the birth of designing distributed systems. Containers took the world by storm and introduced new ways to orchestrate to spin up new development, test environments, or deploy new features to a cluster. Teams can ship more changes per day, and this translates into a faster turnaround for new features and functionality existing CI/CD approach, the development team remains dependent on the operations team to deploy new changes in production. GitOps empowers teams to become more efficient and strategic. It enables

Ops, organizations naturally become more productive. They deploy code more quickly and bring new features to market faster, establishing a clear competitive advantage with an increase in innovation. the performance of engineering teams across the world against four key measures: lead time for new features, failure rate of code changes, frequency of deployment and the time it takes to restore service stability, security and compliance – and it does all this without the need for developers to learn new tools. On the pages that follow, we’ll explain exactly what GitOps is and how you can use it to deliver

delivery in your organization easier and will significantly speed up your team’s ability to ship features. eBook 4 The Principles of GitOps The entire system is described declaratively. Kubernetes By applying GitOps best practices developers use familiar tools like Git to manage updates and features to Kubernetes more rapidly. Newly on boarded developers can get quickly up to speed and be productive Introducing GitOps into your organization means: Any developer that uses Git can start deploying new features to Kubernetes The same workflows are maintained across development and operations All changes

about how they would go about building and maintaining the platform. Further, how they would build a new development culture around the platform that makes software delivery seamless. In this paper, we the best interest of any organization as the popular book by Stephen King says developers are ‘The New King Makers.’ A lot of companies are still struggling to provide a developer experience that will DevOps evolution Stream-aligned teams are essentially application development teams that build features and release code into production. Platform teams, on the other hand, exist to support application

deploying. The move to DevOps requires technical and cultural changes at an organizational level. A new set of tools that can abstract the complexity of the steps previously handled by large teams must microservices that can each be owned by a single team. Organizational leaders must also create a new culture that celebrates iterating and failing fast. Moving to DevOps is almost always worth the effort (WKP) works with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). WKP includes enterprise-grade features that extend the richness of GitOps using a model-based system to configure and define clusters

delivery (CD) tooling. My mindset at the time was, “We can do better.” We had new, declarative tools for infrastructure and a new paradigm to work. However, there weren’t many tools that had fully embraced releases can measure in the hundreds per day. It quickens developer loops so much that often, features land in production that same day. All the golden metrics you track will improve, and morale along The Path to GitOps. Toward the end of writing The Path to GitOps, Christian decided to pursue a new role outside of Red Hat. While we’re sad to see him go, we’re also celebrating the opportunity he’s

complexities of multicloud environments. Each cloud service has different APIs, syntax, and other features, and each comes with its own unique set of “gotchas.” This com- plexity is compounded by the need

microservices-based architectures and even databases in the form of database DevOps. Now there’s a new kind of Ops. GitOps is rapidly gaining popularity to extend the scope of DevOps further to include their infrastructure as code and version control them via Git. Whenever a new change is required, a pull request with the new change is created, executing the CI/CD pipeline to provision or modify the pipeline will then inform the Git Operator, which will pick up all the modifications and the desired new state. The Git operator will then compare the state of the existing infrastructure and desired state